What September gave to me.

Well, I've been working and here's what I got done, even with 4 different trips this month, but the trips were 3 - 4 days so that still gave me plenty of time.  I'm hooking up to Stories from the Sewing Room for my finish.  Check out the others at that site and see some really beautiful work from the host herself.  It's absolutely gorgeous.

Here's my stuff.  On the painting side I said I would do the following and see what's been done.

Painting:

• three cards that you can mail but you paint the images on them.  Ones a secret so here's the other two.

• seal mammal from the last post.  It showed the video that I will be following

• Acrylic painting of Zeon National Park. - almost done, except for some of the rocks.  Will have to finish it in the next two weeks.

Quilt

These are my finished goals that I am hooking up to Stories from the Sewing Room One Monthly Goal.  To see when I set my goals look at this blog posting link.

• applique girl with RB blocks all around it.  Still working on this one.  Worked on the extras mentioned below instead.  This is going on October's goal. 

• 4 more blocks from the Cozy Winter BOM from Apples and Beaver Cozy Holidays BOM.  Here's the ones I did:
• teddy bear - partly done.
• Reindeer - done.

• Female elf - not done
• male elf - done 

• bell with ribbon. - done 

• steam engine - still to go
• snowman. - partly done.

But I still have two more weeks to complete it.  So those were my goals for this month, those two things.  These are the extras that I wanted to do

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  3 more blocks of cactuses for a quilt I'm doing.  The pattern is "Oh My Cacti" by Pen and Paper Patterns  This is the link to the pattern if you're interested
• I never got it done.  I have a hard time to get these done.

•  The Giant Swoon called Patchwork Swoon from "Thimble Blossoms" by Camille Roskelley.  I love her work.  I started it in August, and now I want to finish it.  It was one of my kits that I always wanted to do.  It's an old pattern that I bought 10 years ago.  I'm using a Jelly Roll by Collage Bitterweet, something I purchased from Craftsy.com when they changed hands 10 years ago as well.  It's sweet, and just right.  As for the rest of the material, I used scraps that I purchased from a woman online that can no longer quilt because of her arthritis.  It's very common in BC with all the rain.  This one is not even in a container, it's in a paper sheet protector, so I really want it done.  And I love the pattern.  I'm doing it because I want to see if I can do it.  One of those challenges.

And here are the results:

It looks so excellent on my wall.  We have a loft condo so the living room ceiling is so high.

It may not look it for the blocks of all those squares were not the correct size.  They were suppose to be 16 1/2 and most were one direction and then 15 1/2 the other way.  So I started to do some math to try to fix it, it was difficult.

The quilting was fun, even some of the sections because of the wrong size blocks were a little wonky.  You can do some stretching but not a lot.  So I started to do just simple straight lines with a walking foot to get it secure.

The effect is evident above.  This is what I really worked hard at, with at least 6 hours of quilting and it is so worth it.  It's now my fall quilt for each year.  

And since I have a fall hanging quilt, I wanted something that was fall look for my bed.  I had a quilt that was 16 years old, and I only used it once.  It's too big for my barn door and for the wall, and too small for the queen bed.  It's definitely a twin bed size, and it's gorgeous with it's colors, but see for yourself.  I expanded it, giving it another layer all around except for the top.  I've been meaning to do this for ages, just too scared to wreak the quilt if it didn't turn out right, but after thinking about how I'm not using it, that was it, it was done.

Original quilt, large laptop, covered 6 inches off the bed.  NOW>>>>>

I added the fall trees you see here on both sides of the bed, and part of the bottom part, but ran out, so I added these leaves and forest floor, you see in the bottom picture.

This is a better picture of the fall trees fabric.  Wish I bought more (How many of us have said that in our quilting life time??!!!)

That's it, my happy job so far.  Maybe I'll get those cacti done after all, but I'm away for a while, so I'm doing what I can.